Matteo Messina Denaro

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy's most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in ...

A suspected sighting of him in September 2021 led to a manhunt and hundreds of tips, the prosecutor said. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tweeted: “A great victory for the state which demonstrates that it does not give up in the face of the Mafia.” “It is a victory for all the police forces that have worked together over these long years to bring the dangerous fugitive to justice,” Italy’s Chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, said in a statement congratulating the Carabinieri – Italy’s military police – and the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Fugitive mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested on Monday by Italian military police after thirty years in hiding.

Matteo Messina Denaro, a leader within Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia, has been linked to a string of murders.

“All of this was aimed at trying to get the state to back down from a major onslaught against organised crime that had been gaining momentum … In 1993, he helped organise the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say. “[His arrest] is a very important symbolic gesture which shows that ultimately the state will win, and the state is winning in the case of the Sicilian mafia.”

Citing the clinic's director, Corriere Della Sera reported that Messina Denaro tried unsuccessfully to escape law enforcement, but investigators later said he ...

[Crime](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/crime), however, has long run in the family. The carabinieri say they found a suspect in good condition, wearing a $38,000 [Franck Muller](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/luxury-watches/2) watch. Whatever charges Matteo Messina Denaro faces now that he's under arrest, he has already been sentenced to life in prison. [Cosa Nostra](https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/growth-strategies/even-the-mafia-can-teach-us-something/292608) boss and Italy's most wanted man, has been arrested. Matteo Messina Denaro has long been considered one of the Sicilian Mafia's most influential and dangerous members. He became boss of the powerful Mafia family in Trapani, Sicily, after the arrest of his uncle, Salvatore "Toto" Riina, in 1993.

Convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, authorities said.

While the Sicilian Mafia was significantly weakened by a small army of turncoats, on the mainland, the ‘Ndrangheta syndicate, based in the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, steadily eclipsed Cosa Nostra in reach and influence. Messina Denaro went into hiding in the summer of that same year, as the Italian state stiffened its crackdown on the Sicilian crime syndicate following the murders of Falcone and Borsellino. That all three top bosses were ultimately arrested in the heart of Sicily while they led a clandestine life for decades won’t surprise Italy’s police and prosecutors. Once Provenzano was in police hands, the hunt focused on Messina Denaro, but despite numerous reported sightings of the boss, he managed to elude arrest until Monday. Although he had a weakness for women, Messina Denaro could be cruel, strangling a woman while she was pregnant, according to Italian media. Messina Denaro, who had a power base in the port city of Trapani, in western Sicily, was considered Sicily’s Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive. Right after he went into hiding, Messina Denaro sent a letter to his then-girlfriend. Unlike Sicily’s crime syndicates, the ‘Ndrangheta draws its rank and file based on family ties, leaving it less vulnerable to turncoats. [two bombings in Sicily in 1992](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-20-mn-4101-story.html) that killed top anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone’s wife and several of their bodyguards. He was wearing a brown leather jacket trimmed in shearling and a matching white-and-brown skullcap and his trademark tinted glasses. His face looked wan, and he looked straight ahead. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the police force’s special operations squad.

ROME - Italian anti-mafia police caught Sicilian godfather Matteo Messina Denaro on Monday, ending a 30-year manhunt for Italy's most wanted fugitive.

"He is the essence of the great historical power of Cosa Nostra. He had been on the run since 1993. Messina Denaro was arrested a day after the 30th anniversary of the arrest of Salvatore "The Beast" Riina, the Cosa Nostra boss who died in 2017.

The 60-year-old mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was caught just outside a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for ...

According to the He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64288928), he is set to be imprisoned for two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that murdered top-anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife and several of their bodyguards.

Police in Sicily have found the hideout of Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, following his arrest in Palermo after 30 years on the run.

S T Latest Classifieds [his arrest in Palermo](https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-arrests-wanted-mafia-boss-matteo-messina-denaro.html) after 30 years on the run. Campobello is the town of Giovanni Luppino, the man who accompanied Messina Denaro to the Maddalena clinic on Monday morning where the mafia boss was arrested, RAI reports. Police in Sicily located the hideout of Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro on Monday night following

Sicilian mobster who boasted 'I filled a cemetery by myself' managed to stay hidden without going far from home.

Denaro was one of a gang who kept the boy chained up in various locations in western Sicily for two years to put pressure on his father to recant, before he was strangled and his body dissolved in acid. “Today’s arrest is an important step forward, however, it would be a mistake to think that with today’s arrest the fight against the mafia is finished. “He became part of the Corleone group, but he was a very modern boss in some ways,” says Di Girolamo. It’s also important to find out how he was able to remain a fugitive from justice for 30 years, and who was protecting him. “Like the old mafiosi, he sees the mafia as a superior state, involving a select few who are worthy of the honour,” Teresa Principato, a former magistrate and a member of the Direzione Nationale Antimafia (DNA) who was on his trail for decades, said in 2014. “He was never the boss,” says Principato. [invited the wrath of the state](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/22/mafia-godfathers-sicily-palermo-italy) by assassinating two high-profile and widely admired anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in 1992. He didn’t need to build himself a bunker like the heads of the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria. “He was not married, but he had a child with his partner. A series of arrests of people close to him, including his sister Patrizia, raised hopes that the net was closing, but none of them would talk. Hundreds of police had been engaged in the search over the years with no success. Thirteen years later, his sidekick, living like an ascetic, eating cheese and chicory and reading his Bible in a shepherd’s hut near his birthplace, Corleone, was run to ground.

Messina Denaro is accused of being a ruthless assassin whose violence fuelled the bloody reputation of the Cosa Nostra Mafia. “With the people I have killed ...

“We have confirmation of his presence in Brasil, Spain, Britain, Austria,” she told Il Fatto Quotidiano daily at the time. He was once featured on an Italian magazine cover in dark glasses, looking like a rock star, but his list of victims is long and the crimes he is accused of are horrific. Falcone was murdered in a car bombing near Palermo on May 23, 1992. His first run-ins with the law began in 1989 when he took part in a bloody struggle between two clans. Unfortunately, the employee was Messina Denaro’s mistress. As head of the Castelvetrano clan, he was allied with the Corleonesi clan, which was immortalised in the The Godfather films.

Italian police arrested Matteo Messina Denaro when he was identified walking from a clinic to a cafe.

In 2002 he was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia. "Messina Denaro committed some of the most violent and cruel crimes Italy can remember," he said. Police said that far from looking like a "destroyed man", he seemed like "a well-groomed man in a good economic condition". After he went into hiding, Cosa Nostra completely changed its attitude, becoming a more silent and almost invisible, submerged organisation," journalist Andrea Purgatori told the BBC. He made to turn back, but spotted more police closing off the street. After 30 years of searching, what had finally led the police to him? Italians have been transfixed by the arrest. On Monday morning, more than 100 members of the armed forces surrounded La Maddalena clinic. For over a decade, police cracked down on anyone suspected of protecting or aiding Messina Denaro. During his time at the top of the Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate, Messina Denaro oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking. Investigators zoomed into their lives, narrowing down the search to 10 suspects, then five. Reported sightings placed him everywhere from Venezuela to the Netherlands.

Armed soldiers and police raided a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, when they arrested Matteo Messina Denaro.

A hundred soldiers and armed police were involved in the operation to arrest him. He is accused of masterminding bomb attacks in Milan, Rome, and Florence and of murdering two anti-mafia prosecutors and, most famously, the kidnapping, torturing, and killing of an 11-year-old boy – who was the son of a Mafioso who turned a state witness.Adam Gilchrist, Foreign international correspondent Denaro has been on the run since 1993 and is believed to have been issuing orders to his subordinates to terrorise areas across Italy. Scroll up to listen to the interview. He was receiving treatment for cancer at the time of his arrest on Monday. 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Italian police have arrested the country's most-wanted Sicilian mafia boss, ending a 30-year hunt for a gangster convicted in absentia of the 1992 murders ...

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Italian investigators discover designer clothes and expensive shoes inside 'normal' two-storey building.

At the moment of his arrest, he was wearing luxury clothes and a €38,000 (£33,700) watch. In 2002, Denaro was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison for having personally killed or ordered the murders of dozens of people. He was known for wearing expensive suits, a Rolex and Ray-Ban sunglasses. A man who lived on the first floor of the building told journalists he did not know his neighbour was the infamous mafia boss. He was found by the police officers who took him to the prosecutors for questioning. Nicknamed Diabolik or U Siccu (the skinny one), Denaro was born in Castelvetrano, Sicily, in 1962.

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of Italy's most wanted men, is known for his alleged involvement in dozens of Mafia-related murders.

[cracked down](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64302105) on anyone suspected of aiding or protecting Denaro, arresting over a hundred people. Speaking outside the prosecutor’s office, Meloni said that while Italy had not yet won the “war” against the Mafia, this was a “battle that was fundamental to win.” He also allegedly kidnapped the 12-year-old son of a man who was testifying against him, holding him hostage for two years before strangling the boy then dissolving his body [ in acid](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64302105) to prevent the family from burying him. They identified a man who had booked a treatment under the name of Andrea Bonafede, the nephew of deceased Mafia boss Leonardo Bonafede. His brother, Salvatore Messina Denaro, was arrested [ in 2010 ](https://www.france24.com/en/20100312-italy-mafia-police-justice-messina-denaro-organised-crime-palermo)but refused to testify about Matteo’s whereabouts. [told reporters.](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/17/messina-denaro-a-ruthless-boss-of-the-sicilian-mafia) And in 2021, a British man was arrested at a restaurant in the Hague after anti-mafia police wrongly identified him as Denaro. In May 2011, police were surveilling him at a farmhouse near his home town of Castelvetrano, but failed to arrest him, despite the involvement of hundreds of officers. “Messina Denaro committed some of the most violent and cruel crimes Italy can remember,” Purgatori said. [health](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/17/messina-denaro-a-ruthless-boss-of-the-sicilian-mafia), along with [a mix](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64302105) of old-school policing and modern technology, were key to his capture. In 2013, his sister, Patrizia Messina Denaro, [ was arrested](https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/10/10/messina-denaro-sisters-jail-term-extended_e006c7c6-c4cf-4839-9939-1d10d88f99ff.html) and later sentenced to 14 years in prison for being a member of the Mafia. [both members](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/17/messina-denaro-a-ruthless-boss-of-the-sicilian-mafia) of the mob, as were his siblings.